I think Bungie dropped the ball... (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Wednesday, May 27, 2015, 17:54 (3553 days ago) @ Xenos

So what can be done?

The shining star of the House of Wolves expansion is Etheric Light. With this currency, we can take any gear we want and bring it up to max level. We can build out our characters however we like, to suit any playstyle. Awesome. If only etheric light wasn't such a pain in the ass to find.
Well actually, it isn't a pain to find at all... for PvP players. 1 hour of playing Trials of Osiris granted me 3 pieces of Etheric Light, plus 2 awesome new weapons, plus a great chest piece, and a fist full of other worthwhile rewards (coins, motes of light, plenty of glimmer).

I think this has to do with circumstances. I do not know a single person on Xbox One that has made it to the Lighthouse. I don't know if this means we have more skilled PvP players on PS4 in the forum, or if there is stiffer competition on Xbox in general, or even that there is more cheating going on on Xbox One, but it is NOT as easy as your experience suggests. I finished 4 ToO cards and the most wins I got was 3 (not counting the buffs), and I definitely am not bad at Crucible. I have a 1.5 k/d and over 60% win/loss rate, as well as friends I play with who generally we trade back and forth being the top of the leaderboard at the end of them game. ToO is no where close to as easy to get Etheric Light as it is in PoE. PoE you can finish a 34 in 1-2 hours almost guarenteed, and same with 35. That's 2 Etheric Light for just persevering and learning the scenarios. You can't do that with ToO, it's too random who you will be matched up with.

I'm sure the overall player base is larger on the PS4 (larger install base, exclusive content, lack of much else on the PS4 ;p). In theory, that should mean that PS4 players are more easily matched against teams of similar skill levels. But I have no idea how that shakes out in practice.

Clearly, the DBO PS4 crew are just badasses ;)

Jokes aside, you are 100% correct that my ToO results were ideal. But let's look at the ideal PoE results: the best you can hope for from a 34 or 35 run is 1 etheric light (unless they also drop from the large chest... Do they?). So that's 1 every 1-2 hours vs 3 every hour-1.5 hours. On top of that, there are plenty of ways to spend a couple hours in PoE and walk away with NOTHING. At least with ToO you can get the other reward packages, buy weapons and armor, and get drops along the way.